Category Archives: Bird Cams

They’re back! Big Red lays first egg; nest now live on new cams website

While we’ve been preparing for another busy cams season, Big Red and Ezra came up with a surprise for us: an egg laid yesterday evening, March 14! The pair had moved their nest to a different light pole overlooking the same athletics field at Cornell, and we’ve been working hard for the past two weeks [...]

Pip, pip, hooray!—Bird Cams memorabilia are here

Many of the people following our Bird Cams grew pretty attached to our Red-tailed Hawks and Great Blue Herons. Now that the youngsters are making their first flights into the great unknown, we’ve been getting requests for memorabilia. We’re pleased to announce a few commemorative designs for coffee mugs and t-shirts, including our unofficial “Pip, [...]

Welcome, Red-tailed Hawk Class of 2012 [Slideshow and Videos]

This week we saw the first of our three young Red-tailed Hawks leave the nest, with one big step and then a long glide toward the oak trees across the street. The youngster came back the next day, watched one of his siblings fledge, and then took off again—this time looking decidedly more skillful in [...]